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Volume XII, Spring 2018 Visions Spring 2018 VOLUME 12 VISIONS is Elon’s student-run sustainability journal. Its mission is to provide an opportunity for students to publish their works that deal with issues in environmental studies. Visions publishes a variety of Elon student and alumni works, including research articles, creative writing, poetry, media reviews, photography, and more. All submissions are reviewed by a team of student editors before publication. The ultimate goal of Visions is to raise awareness of environmental issues as well as prompt conversations about sustainability on this campus. Contributing to VISIONS Visions seeks compelling and well-written contributions on topics related to the environment or sustainability. Research articles must be grounded in scholarly literature, and creative pieces must be original work. All submissions must advance the goal of the publication. Submissions for the Spring 2019 volume of Visions are being accepted! Please email your piece to [email protected] or go to our web page, through Elon’s Office of Sustainability page, for more information about the criteria for submissions and information about our journal. We wish to thank Elon University’s Center for Environmental Studies and the Office of Sustainability for their support. Student Editorial Staff Production Designers Bailey Numbers ‘21 Editor-in-Chief Emily Barger ‘18 Samantha Gardner ‘19 Julio Dragonetti ‘18 Nicole Hawley ‘21 Samantha Feher ‘17 Olivia Jacquier ‘20 Bobby Hoechner ‘18 Soula Kosti ‘18 Ellie Moultrup ‘18 Louisa Sholar ‘20 Jasper Pike ‘18 Georgia Smith ‘19 Emma Scully ‘18 Sabrina Tuton-Filson ‘19 Will Timpson ‘18 Kaitlin Welch ‘19 Sarah Vates ‘18 Jane Williams ‘21 Zaria Zinn ‘18 Jeff Zoldy ‘18 Faculty Advisors Scott Morrison - Assistant Professor, Education Cassandra Kircher - Professor, English Michele Kleckner - Senior Lecturer, Computing Sciences This magazine was printed on Cougar Digital Text White. It is Rainforest Alliance Certified and FSC Cover2 Visions photo by JacobMagazine Staedler ‘19 Certified (Forest Stewardship Council.) Contents Book Review Opinion 3 Down to the Wire 10 Destroy Our Parks Brittany Sicilliano Andrew Textoris A Call to Vegetarianism 18 Lara Struckman Poetry Elon Garden Studio 30 Soula Kosti 6 The Western Greenway Georgia Smith Swimming Upstream 8 Emily DeMaioNewton Creative Nonfiction 12 Oklahoma at Sunset Skipping Stones Ryan Keeney 16 Emily DeMaioNewton Santa’s Greenhouse Blue Moon 28 Caroline Saviano 25 Emily DeMaioNewton Maybe There’s a Farm in Heaven 26 Soula Kosti When the Snow Was as Tall as I Was 27 Brittany Coppla From the Editor I used to be plagued by this self-fulfilling prophecy. I’m always reading news headlines that characterize our generation as lazy, apathetic, and disengaged. That we millennials can’t muster an opinion on the issues that affect us. In my high school, we celebrated “Fight Apathy” day, as if it were a battle already lost. The students were all given a sticker to proudly write and display a cause that they believed in. I always found myself staring at the fresh, unmarked sticker, trying to figure out what I believed in. Do I believe in anything? Maybe they’re right… But coming to college, I’ve become assured of the value of my opinions. I’ve found that this notion of apathy simply does not apply to Elon students. The pieces that lie ahead are brought to you by authors who care — really care — about affecting change in this world. They care about the animals that roam this earth. They care about bringing awareness to people of their environmental impact. They care to encourage growth and learning about issues of the environment. They care enough to attempt to put into words the unending beauty of the natural world. Most of all, they care to take action. The content of this issue serves as a reminder that people of our generation have opinions worth sharing. More than that, they see issues of the environment as worth writing about. I want to thank the authors of this issue for their stories, their research, their big, beautiful opinions. The world is changing because of you. To our readers, thank you for yielding your time to these brave works. We hope we can inspire you to believe in your opinions, too. 2 Visions Book Review: Down to the Wire by David Orr By Brittany Sicilliano Spring 2018 3 In David Orr’s 2009 book, Down to the Wire, he strong example of motivated and effective leadership outlines how leaders and political institutions must when handling controversial and complex issues. Orr learn from history in order to make a significant also cites President Franklin Roosevelt as a role model impact in the realm of sustainability. Using past for leadership. When President Roosevelt took over, examples of leadership, he tells us how to use these he faced challenges of keeping a country together in the examples as a model for modern day politicians to push face of an economic collapse. Instead of heightening the sustainability into the forefront of the world’s issues. widespread panic caused by the Great Depression, he The numbers alone prove that environmentalism worked to inspire and spread hope while keeping the can no longer be ignored. Studies show we have the country from economic collapse. Although he did not most amount of carbon in our atmosphere now than we end the Great Depression, he did restore confidence in have had in the past 650,000 years. Additionally, with the country. Orr argues that these examples of successful deforestation and burning of fossil fuels we have already leadership and initiative should serve as a model for caused a 0.8°C increase in our contemporary leaders. the world’s temperature, Our current administration and with greenhouse “We, in America, have the tools must not push aside clean energy gases still being pumped legislation; we need it to put into the atmosphere, we to learn how to survive under victory gardens on the White can expect to see a further scarce conditions, but we must House lawn and solar panels on increase in the future. government buildings. Instead While polls may teach them to others or we will of spending a trillion dollars a show that knowledge of fail as a country.’’ year on our military and defense climate destabilization is forces, there must be work done increasing, we have yet to close the gap between the to see a significant shift in richest and poorest citizens. If our preventative actions as a nation. We are still highly the current administration cannot prove to be the leader dependent on cheap fossil fuels such as coal and oil. we need, perhaps that will be enough for us to stand Orr tells us in his introductory chapter that “the enemy up and do it ourselves. By taking matters into our own is us…but all of us together, properly led, can make a hands, there is hope that the issue of sustainability will big difference” (p. 7). However, we are still waiting for not fade away from the forefront of American political this leadership to enact major changes. It is going to be discussions. Throughout the book, Orr outlines a imperative that we take the proverbial bull by the horns number of challenges and priorities that American and start taking steps towards a more sustainable future. will have to face in the near future. Whether it is the Orr analyzes past examples of successful leadership, challenges posed by peak oil or the breakdown of our starting with figures like Abraham Lincoln and ecosystems due to anthropogenic causes, these challenges Franklin Roosevelt. During Lincoln’s presidency, the must be faced head on in order to ease the damages issue of slavery was in the forefront of everybody’s that global climate destabilization will inevitably cause. mind. He established a clear plan for change while Due to the lack of action from our modern day striving for unity. Lincoln’s presidency serves as a leaders, Orr suggests that we look to corporations to 4 Visions take the lead as agents of change. This idea is especially speak to us about living simply. His proposal of simple significant because many experts and environmentalists living included using renewable energy for electricity, feel as though corporations are leading the charge in the using hot water and solar cookers to cook his food, assault against our planet. America is the home of many and growing vegetables and grains, as well as other big box chains responsible for mass producing waste and sustainable initiatives. Although it may be difficult to filling up landfills. While many businesses have made persuade masses to adapt this lifestyle, Americans can efforts to implement “green” initiatives, they have yet to still incorporate some of Merkel’s habits into their daily commit to entirely sustainable operations. As Professor living. He also talked about visiting other countries and Carroll, of the University of New Hampshire pointed out studying their cultures and lifestyles. While Americans during lectures, by definitions, these stores (such as Wal- often view untouched land as a resource to be destroyed Mart or McDonald’s, etc.) cannot be truly sustainable. and exploited, Merkel tells us that the other cultures Personally, I have a hard time looking towards those look at the land as part of their family and communities. who are harming us for help, as Orr suggests. I feel We need to adapt the same respect for nature as these that our current big-box corporations have not proven cultures do in order to reduce our negative impact. that they have the capability to successfully lead an Down to the Wire is an eye-opening account of how initiative towards sustainability in the corporate world.
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